EGAVE

interpolate

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
    in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated, probably by some unknown medieval scribe
  2. verb To estimate the value of a function between two tabulated points.
  3. verb During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.

Similar words

alter extrapolate falsify insert intercalate interpose interleave interpone interplace intersert

Often followed by

the between a to for in and here from

Word family

interpolated interpolates interpolating interpolative interpolator interpolators

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